Besides being the Executive Vice President at Santeon Group, Ahmed is the co-author of a top-rated Agile adoption book; “Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World.” Along with 10+ years of software development experience, Ahmed has a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in value-based Agile Transformation. Ahmed is often called Dr. Agile because of his free online Agile readiness assessment tool, Doctor Agile and pragmatic approaches for organizations attempting to adopt Agile. Dr. Sidky co-founded the International Consortium for Agile and sits on the steering committee for the new PMI-Agile certification and was the program chair for the Agile 2009 conference. Ahmed has guided Enterprise Agile transformations in Fortune 100 companies as well as educated people on Agile and Lean high performing teams starting from CEOs to Jr. Developers in companies around the world such as: Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM, Siemens, Verizon Wireless, Caterpillar, Raytheon, Booz Allen Hamilton, Vodafone and Raya.
